After the first partitioning of Poland in 1772, the Austrian authorities found the area underdeveloped in terms of public transport. The priority was to build roads, which at the time were the basis of transport. The construction of the new road was preceded by detailed measurements by a team of military surveyors and cartographers headed by Fridrich von Mieg, which resulted in the production of detailed maps of the former southern borderlands of the Republic. A new transport route, later popularly known as the “Imperial Road”, ran east to west through Galicia. The new road connected the Galician capital Lviv with the imperial capital Vienna. The entire route was completed in 1785. It runs a distance of 5 km through Kozy and is presently known as ulica Bielska and ulica Krakowska. It is the oldest section of the Central Galician route, completed in 1781, connecting Biała, through Kęty, Andrychów, Wadowice, Myślenice and Gdów to Bochnia. The first road of this type on Polish territory, its construction was supervised by the Austrian engineer Johann Gross. The road was approximately 5 m wide with shoulders of up to 2 m and paved to a depth of 0.5 m with four layers of gravel. For long stretches the road was planted densely with trees on both sides wherever possible. The wide crowns of oak and linden trees provided shade on hot and sunny days. The establishment of the Imperial Road greatly revived the Galician economy. In Kozy alone, three large brick inns were built by the roadside.